I have been creating forms and pages to use for our homeschooling this year. I will be sharing these on my blog for anyone who wants to use them. The first is a saint report form. I will be adding more as I get them made!
My children will be adding saint reports to their curriculum this year, so I made this form to make it a little easier for them to hit the highlights! It is fashioned on the book report forms CHC uses in their 2nd grade curriculum.
If you add these to your blog, please credit my blog as your source. :)
Saint Report Form
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Back to School Part 1: Planning The Calendar Year
So this is our last official week of Summer vacation and we will be starting our homeschool 2011-2012 year on Monday! To sum up last year, we got off to a slow start and spent much of the year planning and schooling on the fly. Well this summer I have spent just about every extra minute planning for this year so we will be off to a better start!
THE CALENDAR YEAR
Today I will share how I went about planning the upcoming year. I started with just planning the school year calendar. This year we were "finished" in early May, which was nice, but I started thinking, what is the use of planning our school year to coincide with everyone else's? One of the great benefits of homeschooling is having the flexibility to take off the times other people aren't and to get the deals on travel and the better weather. So we sat down and discussed when we would like to have our breaks and started the calendar from there. We decided on February, May and November. Ideally I would prefer September to be off, but we can work on it for next year and this year we will be hosting a large Thanksgiving, so I figured it would be nice to have some time off before that! So with 52 weeks in the year and 36 weeks of school, I came up with a trimester schedule starting August 1, 2011 and ending June 30, 2012.
Once that was complete, I started plugging dates and units and chapters into an excel spreadsheet to account for all of the lessons we wanted to cover this year. It looks a little daunting, but I am a long range planner so I like to see how it will all come out in the big picture. (This spring, I worked on a 15 year long range plan to see how all the subjects will eventually fit together in one cohesive picture.) I still need to fit Magnolia's plans into the picture, but her work is a much smaller task!
UP NEXT: OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE
THE CALENDAR YEAR
Today I will share how I went about planning the upcoming year. I started with just planning the school year calendar. This year we were "finished" in early May, which was nice, but I started thinking, what is the use of planning our school year to coincide with everyone else's? One of the great benefits of homeschooling is having the flexibility to take off the times other people aren't and to get the deals on travel and the better weather. So we sat down and discussed when we would like to have our breaks and started the calendar from there. We decided on February, May and November. Ideally I would prefer September to be off, but we can work on it for next year and this year we will be hosting a large Thanksgiving, so I figured it would be nice to have some time off before that! So with 52 weeks in the year and 36 weeks of school, I came up with a trimester schedule starting August 1, 2011 and ending June 30, 2012.
Once that was complete, I started plugging dates and units and chapters into an excel spreadsheet to account for all of the lessons we wanted to cover this year. It looks a little daunting, but I am a long range planner so I like to see how it will all come out in the big picture. (This spring, I worked on a 15 year long range plan to see how all the subjects will eventually fit together in one cohesive picture.) I still need to fit Magnolia's plans into the picture, but her work is a much smaller task!
UP NEXT: OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Summer
Whew it has been a long, hot summer!
I have been working nearly constantly on really organizing my upcoming school year. After deciding to not re-enroll with St. Thomas Aquinas, I am attempting to piece together my own hybrid curriculum taking into account my girls' strengths and interests and trying to implement more Catholic resources.
More to come on how my choices came about, later.
Eventually I will be posting my plans for the year. We start our calendar in 3 weeks, so time is a ticking!
I have been working nearly constantly on really organizing my upcoming school year. After deciding to not re-enroll with St. Thomas Aquinas, I am attempting to piece together my own hybrid curriculum taking into account my girls' strengths and interests and trying to implement more Catholic resources.
More to come on how my choices came about, later.
Eventually I will be posting my plans for the year. We start our calendar in 3 weeks, so time is a ticking!
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